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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rodrigo Istalindir" data-source="post: 3048716" data-attributes="member: 2810">First round rules and guidelines:1.  I'll try to post the pictures for the first 8 competitors tomorrow as close to 12:00pm Eastern as I can.  That should give everyone a reasonable fair shake time-wise.  That means stories will be due by 12:00pm Eastern (give or take) Sunday.  If in doubt, check the timestamp of the post with the pictures -- it's 72 hours from that point.  If we have overseas participants that are seriously off from me time-wise, chime up now and we'll see what we can do to accomodate you. 2.  First round will be three pictures, 5000 word max (no minimum).  3.  Judges are free to use their own criteria, but IME things generally boil down to ideas, execution, and picture use.  Obviously, this is a creative writing competition, so go as wild as you want.  Spelling and grammar matter, as does puncutation.  Given the nature of the boards, formatting won't count against you, but please make some effort to keep it readable (breaks between paragraphs especially).  For picture use, you *cannot* use a picture as a picture (eg, "Dave wandered through the haunted mansion, and gasped when he saw the painting of the monster in the study").  Other than that, you're free to treat each picture as literally or as metaphorically as you think you can get away with  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />  4.  ALL POSTS ARE FINAL!  No editing -- once you post your story, you're done.  If you are unsure about how your stuff will cut and paste from Word or whatever, do a test post before we start.  Please don't post Word documents or .PDFs in the thread.5.  If the boards are unavailable at the time the stories are due, or for some reason you will be unable to post by the deadline, you can email  stories to me at jckline at gmail dot com.   So long as I get the story before the deadline, you're good.  (Judges, please email me your preferred email address so I can forward stories on to you as necessary).6.  No peeking at your competitor's story before you've posted yours.  We're on the honor system here, folks.Did I forget anything?</blockquote>

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